New optional instruction sheet for students to get their SF accounts in advance (when they'll be working 1a in the classroom together)

For those who have students working Lab 1a in class together, we created this optional instruction sheet for students to get their Salesforce accounts in advance of starting Lab 1a.

When many students are trying to get their accounts at the same time, Salesforce's account-generating server can get bogged down. In our recent experience, with 40-50 students in class, it was taking 5-10 minutes for students to receive the Welcome emails. But one or two took longer–as much as 15-20 minutes in one case.

If you're working 1a in the classroom, you may want to give students this instruction sheet so they just get their account in advance to avoid that issue.

Note: When students are working the lab as homework, on their own time, the account requests are not bunched together so the wait times should be shorter.

Reminder to refresh student docs for Fall (last update 8/17)

Just a reminder to refresh your lab docs for students whenever you start a new term, to be sure you're using the latest, greatest version. Our last update was made on 8/17 so if you refreshed after that, you're good to go. If not, please refresh before you distribute to your students.

Here's that same Google Drive folder where the latest version always resides:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RBHnDguzb8Jas79nXgaKoXyt5BCRs4M3?usp=drive_link

Thanks & have a great Fall semester!

Salesforce's Summer 24 Release now complete – all students working 3b now should use recent update posted 6/4

The header says it all, but to clarify - as of last weekend, all Salesforce "orgs" (accounts) are on Summer 24, so the recent Lab 3b update posted on 6/4 is the one everyone should use when working 3b at this point.